Members of Jalle Payam in Bor claim they have identified five cows that were raided from the area earlier last month by the alleged raiders from Pibor.
The animals were identified in a Juba livestock auction Last Week.
On the 1st of February, five people were killed and four others wounded during the attack on a village in Jalle.
The cows are currently under the custody of police in Juba.
Jonglei state government says it will send document of claim to Juba for court procedures.
“As the county administration we are aware about the process and we are actually going even to open the case because they were the one who killed our people in Jalle,” said Mamer Ruk, Bor County Commissioner.
For his part, Joseph Lilimoi, Pibor Deputy Chief Administrator for Administration and Finance, said the case is controversial.
“Police authority compared traders’ document with the claimers’ dates but they found that traders’ document was issued on 6th of January in Pibor area,” he told Eye Radio.
“How come for cattle that were stolen on the 1st of February to be among January’s document?”
Lilimoi urged the people of Jonglei to solve the issue amicably so that they can ‘live in peace’.